RMClock/Undervolting risk?

I've successfully undervolted my XPS with the help of flipfire's guide and the support of fellow friendly NBR users. However, one thing still bothers me.

I have RMClock to run at system startup via the registry but what if my system can't start up one day. Apparently my warranty will be voided if Dell sees I've undervolted (if I have RMClock on my notebook). But if my notebook suddenly can't startup, I won't be able to close and remove traces of RMClock before sending my notebook to Dell for repair. And even if it will be able to start up in safe mode or something, if my GPU dies or something because of the defect and I get a blank screen, I won't be able to see what I'm doing and still will not be able to close and remove RMClock. Is there a solution around this?

Thanks!

 

You can take out the HDD, format it in someone else`s computer and that`s it.

However, UVing does not do any damage, you can only get bluescreens, and restarts.

 

i, too, have wondered what i would do in this situation.

1) boot into safe mode (tap f8 while booting up)

2) start/run/msconfig go to startup and uncheck rmclock / click ok

3) reboot

voila! a reboot with no rmclock. no problem. note that if the voltages you selected are anything near stable, at the off chance it doesn't start up once, you will probably be able to start up the next time and adjust your voltages up a bit if necessary.

word.

 

Also, while in safe mode... RMClock folder has a rmclock_wipeout.reg file. Use that to delete all settings.

 

Or if your hard drive is totally unable to boot windows, use a Linux Live CD, such as Ubuntu which has NTFS support built in.

 

Having RMclock on your notebook wont void the warranty, its just a CPU tool. Though Dell might see Undervolting as tampering with the product. Never had problems in the past though.

I suggest creating 2 Administrator user profiles. If you ever need to send it for minor repairs which require OS interaction. Give them access to an empty Admin account.

If your GPU died, they wont see whats in it since it cant be repaired. They will just replace the whole thing. They can try put your HD on another notebook but that would be a waste of time. Besides your Vista OEM licence was only designed to work with that specific notebook.

For HP repairs, the first thing they do is re-image the drives to completely rule out a software issue. I dont know if Dell does this too.

 

remember-
rmclock does nothing if it is not running. the safest way to stop it from running is to safe mode boot, it will not load up and therefore not be running in safe mode boot.

make sure when you boot into safe mode, you go into the profile you want to normal boot into. don't select the 'administrator' account, as this account may not have rmclock enabled at boot anyway!

simply uncheck it from msconfig (see above post for instructions), and you are good to reboot in normal mode and rmclock won't be running and you will be fine.

you may not have to delete all of the settings... but you sure can if you like. sweet tip, eleron. i suppose if your rmclock settings are set so low it bluescreens right away when you run it, this hint from eleron would be especially useful...

rmclock is a program, it doesn't change the bios or anything. word.

 

Thanks for the help everyone!

 

Hows the UV workin out for you? How low were you able to get and what are your temps?

 

I'm at 0.9875 on the 12x multiplier. My max CPU temp at full load (w/ orthos) is 65C

 

Vurry nice.

 

umm... im in some deep it seems.. i turned off thermal monitor then restarted. for some reason i keep getting blue screen before the log in page comes up. i tried in every safe mode and same thing happens. any advise? im using vista basic